Eurosphere agenda: Conservatives win in UK, Not to sad for Labor whom once led by a war mongerer, Blair…

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The David Cameron story

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

What factors got David Cameron to the top?

PM selects his first Tory cabinet

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

David Cameron is spending the weekend deciding the make-up of his first all-Conservative cabinet after his party won a majority for the first time since 1992.

The polls (and all but one of) the forecasts WERE wrong. Ed Miliband was nowhere near becoming Prime Minister

 open Democracy News Analysis – by Shaun Lawson

What happened in the UK’s election by someone whose prediction was more right than wrong

On Thursday May 7, 2015 Britain went to the polls at what was universally – entirely wrongly – believed to be the closest General Election in two generations. The opinion polls were deadlocked, and had been for months in a choice that was by far the most stark since 1992. It wasn’t, contrary to what 99.99% of people assumed, a close election – but it was certainly a watershed.

Scottish nationalists’ success changes UK politics

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

New political landscape in UK politics

A five-point plan for Cameron to win an EU referendum

 Centre for European Reform

The politicians hardly mentioned Europe during the campaign, yet the most important consequence of Britain’s general election will be a referendum on EU membership. Prime Minister David Cameron plans to negotiate reforms to the EU and then hold an in-or-out referendum before the end of 2017. What does he have to do in order to win a referendum on keeping Britain in the club? What is he likely to ask for, in terms of reform? And what would be the impact of ‘Brexit’ on the rest of the EU?

UK General Election: Europe reacts (Part I)

Open Europe blog by Vincenzo Scarpetta

British elections: two unions at stake

 open Democracy News Analysis – by Precarious Europe

The Conservatives have won. Now Britain’s own union and its EU membership are under question

UK ‘political earthquake’ rocks EU

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Europe ponders impact of Cameron win on EU

UK’s David Cameron re-elected as rivals resign

Conservative party sweeps to power as three election rivals quit following their disastrous turnout at the polls

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MAIN FOCUS: Absolute majority for the Tories | 08/05/2015

According to early results the Conservatives won a surprising absolute majority in the UK general election on Thursday. Meanwhile the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats, the junior partner in the current government, suffered major losses. Labour didn’t stand a chance with its left-wing agenda, some commentators argue. Others complain that the country has lost its position in the world regardless of who is in government

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The first political resignation to reference selfies and a Twitter fandom

… UK’s Labour Party, has just resigned after failing to become Prime Minister in yesterday’s General Election. That’s par for the course, but elements of his speech weren’t. As well as name checking colleagues and thanking party workers, he made time to talk about selfies and a Twitter fandom dedicated to him: Thank you for the selfies. Thank you for the support. And thank you for the most unlikely cult of the 21st century – Milifandom. #Milifandom was coined by a 17-year-old student and first

 The Next Web / by Mic Wright /

Which parties were most read on Wikipedia?

Elections Blog on 8 May 2015 at 00:23AM Taha and Stefano previously looked at the distribution of Wikipedia pages by candidate. These pages are much more patchy than Twitter handles: only in the Conservative and Labour cases do more than 40% of candidates have an account, whilst most other parties have far less (though we should note that we are relying on the… Read More » […

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Conservatives win UK election

David Cameron is heading back to Downing Street as prime minister after the Conservatives win a majority – but Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage all resign as leaders of his rival parties.

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The UK political map now looks a lot like Maggie Simpson

… to know about the Conservatives’ big win Thanks to the SNP’s near-sweep of Scotland in the general election Thursday night, the northern part of the UK political map is now shaded nearly solid yellow, the party’s color. That led Twitter user Alex McLaughlan to make a surprising discovery. That predicted UK map post-election. Or #thesimpsons? #GE2015 http://pic.twitter.com/gVldpWmY7j — Alex McLaughlan (@alexmclaughlan) May 7, 2015 Read more… More about Uk, The Simpsons, Us World, Politics, and Uk El

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MAIN FOCUS: The UK votes | 07/05/2015

…ence a new government today, Thursday. Prime Minister David Cameron has forfeited almost certain re-election with his misguided election campaign, some commentators believe. Others blame the Eurosceptic UK Independence Party for the Conservatives’ impending loss of votes

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Online presence of the General Election Candidates: Labour wins Twitter while Tories take Wikipedia

Elections Blog on 3 May 2015 at 11:17AM Some have called the forthcoming UK general election a Social Media Election. It might be a bit of exaggeration, but there is no doubt that both candidates and voters are very active on social media these days and take them seriously. The Wikipedia-Shapps story of last week is a good example showing how important online presence… Read More » […

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People smugglers using Facebook to lure migrants into ‘Italy trips’

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Patrick Kingsley migration correspondent

Using phrases more suited to tourist magazines and images of luxury yachts, smugglers based in Egypt and Turkey openly advertise services on social media

It reads like the website of a travel agency. “A trip to Italy next week in a big fast tourist yacht,” says the Facebook post beneath a picture of a luxury ocean liner. “Two floors, air-conditioned, prepared for tourists. Recommended for families.”

Commission Twitter-chats: interactivity-washing

At 1600 CET today, First Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans will do an online chat on Twitter and Facebook* – tag is #AskFrans. Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc will do the same on Monday 27th April at 1400 CET – tag there is #ITS2015chat.

Why Twitter works better than Facebook for discussions about the EU

Jon Worth by Jon

Following my earlier blog entry about Twitter chats I was confronted by a familiar charge – ah, Frans Timmermans is a Facebook guy. He doesn’t like Twitter. That’s the problem. There are probably some pretty good reasons he likes Facebook, and not Twitter, and I will come to those at the end of the post.

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